| Theory of the global state: Globality as an unfinished revolution M Shaw, S Martin Cambridge University Press, 2000 | 845 | 2000 |
| The new Western way of war: Risk-transfer war and its crisis in Iraq M Shaw Polity, 2005 | 664 | 2005 |
| Global society and international relations: Sociological concepts and political perspectives M Shaw Polity Press, 1994 | 521 | 1994 |
| What is genocide? M Shaw John Wiley & Sons, 2015 | 478 | 2015 |
| War and genocide: Organised killing in modern society M Shaw John Wiley & Sons, 2015 | 478 | 2015 |
| Post-military society: Militarism, demilitarization and war at the end of the twentieth century M Shaw Temple University Press, 1991 | 466 | 1991 |
| Civil society and media in global crises: Representing distant violence M Shaw Burns & Oates, 1996 | 416 | 1996 |
| The state of globalization: towards a theory of state transformation M Shaw Review of international political economy 4 (3), 497-513, 1997 | 276 | 1997 |
| Civil society and global politics: beyond a social movements approach M Shaw Millennium 23 (3), 647-667, 1994 | 222 | 1994 |
| Global activism, global media W De Jong, M Shaw, N Stammers Pluto Press, 2005 | 181 | 2005 |
| Global Society and Global Responsibility: The Theoretical, Historical and Political Limits of'International Society' M Shaw Millennium 21 (3), 421-434, 1992 | 157 | 1992 |
| Dialectics of war: An essay in the social theory of total war and peace M Shaw Available at SSRN 2718985, 1988 | 140 | 1988 |
| Risk-transfer militarism, small massacres and the historic legitimacy of war M Shaw International Relations 16 (3), 343-359, 2002 | 138 | 2002 |
| New Wars of the City:‘urbicide’and ‘genocide’ M Shaw Cities, War, and Terrorism Towards an Urban Geopolitics, 2000 | 101 | 2000 |
| Post-imperial and quasi-imperial: state and empire in the global era M Shaw Millennium 31 (2), 327-336, 2002 | 95 | 2002 |
| Marxism and social science: the roots of social knowledge M Shaw London: Pluto Press, 1975 | 92 | 1975 |
| War, state and society J Cock, R Olive Springer, 1984 | 85 | 1984 |
| There is no such thing as society: beyond individualism and statism in international security studies M Shaw Review of International Studies 19 (2), 159-175, 1993 | 70 | 1993 |
| The contemporary mode of warfare? Mary Kaldor's theory of New Wars M Shaw Review of International Political Economy 7 (1), 171-180, 2000 | 68 | 2000 |
| The state, globalisation and the new imperialism: a roundtable discussion P Gowan, L Panitch, M Shaw Historical Materialism 9 (1), 3-38, 2001 | 63 | 2001 |
